Reflections From RM Founder While Recovering From 4 Joint Replacements
Thank you so much for your prayers and encouraging e-mails that I have received since my hand surgery on November 4, 2009. I had the 4 knuckles that connect my fingers to my hand replaced with silicone joint replacements, due to their disintegration from rheumatoid arthritis which I have lived with for 16 years. This is my first joint replacement, and although I have taken the prescribed pain medication as necessary, and it has not been fun and games, thankfully the pain itself

Preparing for Hand Surgery Next Week
Image by slimmer_jimmer via Flickr Hello, Thank you, friends, for your support in the last few weeks as I have been recovering from Invisible Illness Week, then trying to get organized with “life”. We’ve got a “chore sheet” for our son on the back of the bathroom doo

Rest Ministries On TV This Weekend
Over one year ago I had a film crew who came to my home to tape a segment for a television show. It was exciting, but before the airing date, the program was discontinued. Well, the show has been picked up by a tv show called “Heroes Among Us” and the producer who taped my segment was notified yesterday afternoon that the show is actually airing today and tomorrow (Sat and Sun). You can check your l

Communicating with Your Spouse About Your Chronic Pain
This article is free to reprint. Keep everything “as is” and include the resource “box” at the end that refers back to Rest Ministries. Thank you! ~Lisa ___________________________________________________ Communicating with Your Spouse About Your Chronic Pain

October is Sensory Awareness Month
October is National Sensory Awareness Month with the theme “Come to Your Senses.” This is the fifth year that SIFocus.com will lead and sponsor this national campaign to raise awareness regarding sensory integration/sensory processing disorders. I am posting this because I am VERY familiar with SID or SPD as a mom of a child